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The link problem was not quite as bad as I first thought. I had a typo in my link that I posted with the article. The first link is still broken, but I uploaded a page with the typo file name, so the second link in the article does work. The article is still at the end of the list and does not show in the list of recent articles. There are supposedly over 200 instances of this article directory but few of the articles that I checked (I did only check a few) have been read more than a few times. Many on my page show 0 or 1 for the number of views. I suspect that those showing a 1 show it because the author viewed his own article one time.

I also paid a bit of attention to the links in the footer box. These all appear to direct to pages put up by the directory owner. YouTube had pulled a couple of the videos and at least one other link is broken. This is an interesting concept. The major benefit, if there is a major benefit for anyone, seems to be to the owner of the directory. I am not so sure that I approve, but I will observe for a while more before I pass a final judgment. I did do a search and did not turn up complaints on the subject, but perhaps I did not dig deep enough.

I posted an article to my article-exchange directory last evening. This was an article that I wrote to promote my site Gemstone Jewelry Now.

There is minimal instruction on the site as to posting procedures, just the various input boxes for title, description, article body, and resource box. I screwed up on the format for the resource box and ended up with no working links. It appears that the software does recognize an URL in the standard format and that you can use html to put in anchor text, but I will need to try again to be sure. There was also no space between the end of the article and the beginning of the resource box info. I will try adding a couple of spaces at the end of the article next time.

My major complaint with the directory software is that it dumped the article at the end of the category. I should go back and check to see if that is still the case, possibly the owner of the database can check an article off and it will move to the top of the list. Another thought that I had was that the broken links may have flagged the article and sent it to the end of the line. If this is really the way that the software works there is not much hope of a direct click to a site from the article even though it appears many times. Users are not likely to make it to the end of the category unless they know that the freshest content is at the end. This is the reverse of the way that every other article directory that I have seen works. The pages may still get indexed and the links count, but I would expect no direct traffic.

This may be a good thing for the directory owner as his articles may appear on page one for any category, but for those others adding content promotion would be the only way that I would expect the article to be viewed. The owner of the directory does give instructions on how to list the articles on RSS feeds (something other article sites do automatically).

I do need to go to my installation and make some further observations. At this point the jury is still out on the utility of these article directories. They have not been in place long enough to see if they produce any traffic either directly to the site or due to articles posted to the directory. I will have another update when I have some more thoughts on this topic.

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In this blog I intend to examine, at least superficially, some of the ways being promoted to make money on the web. There are thousands, if not millions, of sales pages for get rich quick schemes for the unwary web newbie. While there are a few good programs that have the potential to make a good profit from your website, with the vast majority of these sales pages the only one making real money is the person promoting the page. When I find a program with substance I will probably devote a page to it. If I think that a page should be viewed with caution I will try to state my reasons for that, too.

So now we embark on the adventure. I hope that you will join me in the fun.